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Thursday, November 1, 2012

NOAA has published their first round of post-Hurricane Sandy aerial survey photography, covering the Atlantic coastlines of parts of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. You can view this detailed, high-resolution color imagery in a convenient, easy to use map viewer. You can choose a street map or recent Google imagery for a backdrop; and you can flicker between that backdrop and the new aerial imagery by toggling the check boxes next to the aerial imagery layers shown along the left side of the map, to get a direct "before and after" comparison.

In many places, the damage is quite stark. Homes and businesses have vanished. The shoreline has changed dramatically, and new inlets have opened up. Here are a few examples that we found after just a few minutes of review. The post-Sandy images in these examples were shot yesterday (October 31):